80,000 Somalis 'FORCIBLY EVICTED’... as Trump's "Deportation Army" RECLAIMS Minneapolis

Ice is on the ground in Minnesota and while agents are out there arresting people, some of the fraudsters who stole billions of dollars are living in neighborhoods just like this.

Some fraudsters are still benefiting from their crimes even after being charged and convicted.

How is that possible?

From this five bed four and a half bath in Washington County to a million dollar house in Plymouth complete with an indoor basketball court. My name is Eric Rasmussen. I'm a reporter with KSTP. Do you know if the government is trying to take this house? We had to see these properties for ourselves. Each house owned by people convicted of fraud. This was a big fraud. Deed to Feeding Our Future. $250 million meant to help kids in need,

but long after prosecutors filed paperwork to seize properties purchased with stolen taxpayer dollars, neighbors told five investigates that still has not happened. Take former Safari restaurant owner, Salim Saeed. Five guilty verdicts now.

A jury convicted him and Feeding Our Future founder Amy Bach nearly nine months ago. But we found Saeed and his wife are still the official owners of this $1.1 million house in Plymouth. Fraud money funded their $952,000 down payment in 2021. And county records show they racked up more than $50,000 in delinquent property taxes.

So they're fraudsters. Why would they pay their taxes?

The note I left, but a week later, we did see someone leaving.

The news is staking out the house.

Prosecutors say they have to wait for Saleem Saeed to be sentenced before they can take the property. Oh, really? But that doesn't explain this one Record show the owner of this house in Willerney is Jonathan Ross the husband of Sharon Ross We want to keep that program going the former director of House of Refuge Twin Cities was sentenced to prison in February For her role in the feeding our future fall that should have cleared the way for the government to take the property, but we found a car registered

to Ross's husband still sitting in the driveway. We are also asking about this

house in Burnsville. Everyone looks like they're getting away with it. Are these people being protected by officials in Minnesota who also may have benefited

from this fraud? Owned by former Feeding Our Future employee, Abdi Kerm Idlay. Do you know Mr. Idlay? Right before being named in the first indictments in 2022, Amy Bach's right-hand man fled the country. Do you know where he is? That's the voice of Idlay's ex-wife, according to a second person who spoke to me from behind

the front door.

Did they still live there?

Sure enough, a month after investigators say Edley put down $95,000 on his new house, records show he and his wife filed for divorce.

A mutual agreement living in the same house, they wrote. But at the exact same time, Minnesota's governor says he's in danger inside his own home.

And I'll tell you what, in my time on this, I'd never seen this before. People driving by my house and using the R word in front of people.

Oh, his. This is shameful.

People are calling him names. I have yet to see an elected official, a Republican elected official say you're right that's shameful. I wonder why that is. This is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior and this type of language. Well maybe it's time for us to be a little meaner. When it's adult like Donald Trump you bully the sh** out of him back. What we should demonize is people like Elon Musk.

So he's nasty to all kinds of people and people are calling him names allegedly with no evidence and he's outraged. But remember just a few days ago when people got mad at Trump for calling Elan Omar names? Well she's doing it too. And she's talking about other Somali Americans. Watch this. Yes. Some of us try to dismiss it saying, oh, that person just talks too much, it doesn't mean anything, or leave them alone, that's my relative, you probably met them in coffee shops, you

know exactly the kind of people I'm talking about. You've sat with them at Starbucks. Maybe you've seen them at the mosque once in a while. Maybe you've gone to parties with them. You know who I mean. You've seen them at the mosque once in a while. Maybe you've gone to parties with them. You know who I mean. You've seen them. So she says that there are people in her community that do not improve it at all. And look at

her face. She means it. She really wants to do what she's saying here. But when Trump says it, oh, he's so terrible. This is unprecedented. This is an attack on an entire community. She's doing the exact same thing.

Wow. She wants to kick people out. This is so crazy. Why does she need to defend herself if everything's perfect and

there aren't people who don't improve the Somali community living in America. This looks like an attack to me, man.

I'm watching the clip of Ilhan Omar. You know, this is somebody that fled this, you know, terrible country, no rights, and then she comes to the United States and uses our freedoms to try to make us more like the country she fled.

How the f*** does that make any sense? Right, she's attacking America when she's not attacking other people. Obviously, not me or current Trump administration, but what had happened to bring in so many people who really don't necessarily want to assimilate. And I think some of these candidates who run there talk about they're not America first, but Somali first.

They did say that.

So it's really a failure of the elite in this country with how they've handled immigration particularly by putting Americans last.

Right. Well they say it's racist if you say that all these Somalis stole a billion. Yeah oh that the race card is what they're trying to do to evade accountability. Right, they're using that as a way to try and shut down these investigations into people who stole massive amounts of money and bought luxury homes and are still living there in some cases. But the local government here and a slow rolling justice system aren't the only ones protecting criminals in Minnesota. Watch this.

But immigration agents might be met with a chilly reception at some Minnesota businesses. Oh really? They have posted signs stating that ICE is not welcoming.

Watch what happens here.

WCCO's Jason Ramslaw explains when businesses can refuse to cooperate and how one restaurant manager says she stood her ground.

Oh, look at this.

They said to me, we're from the Department of Homeland Security.

Ola Arepa in Minneapolis was heading into Dinner Rush Wednesday night when two plain-clothed individuals entered the restaurant. That's General Manager Naomi Rathke speaking with the men who, she said, identified themselves as ICE.

Whipped out a badge really quickly and then flashed a photo of someone on their phone. And then they said, we're looking for this person. I said, this person doesn't work here. They had said, well, we see her in the back right now. And I said, that person is not here.

They're harboring criminals. There are federal fugitives working at some of these businesses who ICE agents say they saw in this restaurant and the restaurant people protected them.

Naomi refused to let the men into the restaurant's back of house.

They said we don't need a warrant.

They don't.

I said, yes you do.

She says the men told them the restaurant was surrounded and they'd be waiting outside for the individual they were looking to apprehend.

I guess it's just sort of this fight or flight sort of response.

Get the license plate.

Look, it's not worth it

for them to stay there for one person. As they say the men left the parking lot in two vehicles. Zero cooperation. I think it's posturing, I think it's intimidation. Ola Arepa's owner and chef Christina Wynn says her restaurant closed early that night and safely escorted employees to their cars. She says her surveillance cameras also captured Ice leaving her lot the morning before. The National Immigration Law Center says Ice needs a judicial warrant to enter a private area of a business. An administrative warrant does not allow agents to enter private areas

without your permission. But they can enter areas that are generally accessible. Like if a business has its front door open, they can go in there. The kitchen area is technically private. That's why they I guess asked for permission. There's debate over this because if a fugitive is seen fleeing into a private area

they're allowed to pursue that person and they don't need a warrant. But the most maddening thing about this story is what we're learning of the devious schemes people were using to pull money out of the welfare agencies that are supposed to be helping people. They had three very elaborate schemes.

Elaborate schemes. The first scheme was centered on supposedly feeding hungry children in the Somali community. And they threatened the government. A group, a non-profit run by some people with Somali ancestry. The name of the non-profit was called Feed, Feeding feeding our future, feeding our future. Yeah, feeding themselves. Feeding our future, went to the welfare authorities in the state of Minnesota, which of course was administering federal taxpayer money. And they said, look, feeding our children said,

feeding our future said, we want to feed hungry children in the Somali community. And the welfare people and state government in Minnesota gave them the money to do that. It started out very small.

That's how all fraud starts.

But the idea was that feeding the future, the Somali non-profit organization, would take this federal taxpayer money, American taxpayer money, and go to businesses, most of which were Somali businesses.

Spend it there.

In the Somali community, and set up feeding sites. Where they supposedly would take children to get a hot meal. On paper, it sounded great. This didn't actually happen. As I say, it started out very, very small.

There were restaurants that said they fed 18,000 people a month and were like the size of the room I'm in. It got bigger and bigger and bigger. And more businesses in the Somali community signed up to be feeding sites. And feeding our future.

The Somali non-profit kept going back to the social services department in Minnesota saying we need more money, we need more money we need more money. What a grift. And at the height of fraud of the fraud they were spending about a hundred million dollars. That's crazy. A year. Not not not over the lifetime of the program a hundred million dollars a year. That's insane. There's just one problem. There were no hungry children.

Right. There were hungry children. They just weren't getting any of the money. These places signed up to be feeding stations and they had like no tables in some of these places. There were restaurants that said,

oh yeah, we're a feeding station, but no meals were ever distributed there They just ran business as usual and collected government money for programs that didn't even exist. It's crazy But wait till you hear what other schemes were happening. Again run by someone of Somali ancestry and this nonprofit went to a bunch of providers

who supposedly were going to provide housing. Housing! Great! We love housing! And they told the welfare authorities in Minnesota who supposedly were going to provide housing. Housing, great. We love housing. And they told the welfare authorities in Minnesota that they needed millions of dollars to house people who were homeless.

Right.

And once again, the program started out small.

It all do.

When they started it in 2020, these crooks started it in 2020.

These crooks, thank you.

They said, we only need $2.6 million.

Only.

But then in 2021, they said, we need $21 million. To what year later? 10 times the money. In the following years, they said we need $42 million. Yeah, they just kept pulling.

Then $74 million. $74 million. Or, they just kept pulling. Then $74 million- $74 million! Or rather to house the homeless.

To house the homeless.

Then $104 million.

A year.

Not the total. A year.

Scheme.

A year.

It's just one problem.

None of the money was going for housing. I mean, you've got every non-profit grifter in America watching this happen and saying gee, they're all taking notes. They're all watching this.

They're all taking notes. They're all trying to figure out how they could replicate these schemes and other sanctuary areas of the country and you know something? After this we're gonna find out

there's all kinds of fraud plundering the US taxpayer all across this land. None of the money was going to help people who were homeless. These providers and this nonprofit Where are the checks and balances? just put the money in their pocket.

Yeah, and bought houses and stuff.

This is crazy.

But there's more. There's more? Oh, there's more. Yeah, and bought houses and stuff. This is crazy.

But there's more.

There's more?

Oh, there's more. They came up with a third scheme.

Well, what's this one? Tell me about this one.

This one is, this one just, this one makes you want to throw up on a potted plant. This one's centered around autistic children. Oh yeah, I heard about this. Fake billing. Once again, in this third program,

a group of providers, mostly medical providers, got together. And they went to the welfare authorities in Minnesota and said we need money to help autistic children. Who does the welfare agency say no to?

That's what I want to know. Who comes in the door and asks these people for tens of millions of dollars and gets turned away because it looks like they're giving money to whoever asks as long as they threaten them and as long as they tell them if you don't help us we're going to call you out for attacking our community.

But as it turns out there may be more American politicians who benefited from this Minnesota

fraud.

$1 billion welfare fraud scandal. And new reports claiming Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has deep ties to people who personally profited from the alleged fraud. Oh, she does. Oh, her officials. Oh, wow. This was a Democrat Party fraud redistribution scheme. This was a Democrat Party fraud redistribution scheme. This was a Democrat Party fraud redistribution scheme. This was a Democrat Party fraud redistribution scheme.

This was a Democrat Party fraud redistribution scheme. This was a Democrat Party fraud redistribution scheme. Taxpayer money waste in the nation and we've been sounding the alarm over the years. We're finally getting the national attention that we need so much here in our state to have full investigations. Would there be an investigation? Right. It's over a billion dollars in taxpayer dollars that have gone out to fraud instead of

going to the people that needed those services the most. Tim Walz is up for re-election. What are people, what are residents in Minnesota saying

about this? Tim Walz is up for his third election here in the state of Minnesota. People were surprised when he was re-elected for a second time, but when he was on the national stage just a year ago, it really let the nation know truly who Tim Walz is. Definitely let Minnesotans know. His favorability is underwater right now.

It's less than 50% and it's mostly because he has not handled fraud and he's increased our taxes and fees and spent through a record surplus.

So taxes went up for people living in America's most fraudulent state, so that money could be taken and given to people who buy luxury homes and send it out of the country.

Unbelievable.

He said this could be just the tip of the iceberg.

Wow.

It's probably happening in other states too.

It can push North almost to $2 billion.

Two billion.

Again, these are taxpayer dollars that have been stolen by fraudsters

here in the state of Minnesota. Well, in 2020, according to the New York Times, the Minnesota Department of Education actually questioning the question feeding our future, which is one of these fraudulent organizations about all the requests that they were making. And the organization actually threatened the state agency and said that if you don't give us what we want, we're going to sue you,, accuse you of racism and I don't think we really want that

kind of... There it is again! That has been used to justify theft and what a scam that is on people who are empathetic and want to help children and want to help the less fortunate. Nobody was getting fed, nobody was getting treated. Nobody was getting homes. Whoever was supposed to go out and say, gee, show me the building that you built and all the homeless people that are now living here

who aren't on the streets. Can you show it to me? No one even asked to see any evidence that the money was even being used appropriately. And when they did, they were threatened. And of course they came

because these are people with no morals spending your money on somebody else. They don't care

but I care.

Do you? Are you happy you voted the way you did in the last election? Did America dodge a big one here by not having a fraudulent governor sitting in the White House calling the shots?

Let me know. Let me know.

See you in the next video.